FORMER New Zealand All Blacks coach Wayne Smith explains the key tenets of his leadership philosophy.

ENGLAND World Cup-winning cricketer Luke Wright is one of the 29 new students of the Master of Sport Directorship course at Manchester Metropolitan University, alongside footballers, managers and a well-known TV presenter.

ROSS WILSON, Southampton’s Director of Football Operations, has left the club to become Rangers’ new Sporting Director.

DAVID ADAMS has succeeded Osian Roberts as Wales’ Technical Director.

SPORTING DIRECTOR Victor Orta reveals how he convinced Marcelo Bielsa to come to Yorkshire and outlines the impact that the Argentine has had at Elland Road.

LEEDS UNITED Sporting Director Victor Orta says the club’s recruitment policy is 70% human judgement and 30% data.

BRIGHTON’S Dan Ashworth says clubs need Technical Directors in order to ensure they are travelling in the right direction over the medium to long term.

LIVERPOOL chief executive Peter Moore says the club has “merged digital and analogue” to create “the essence of a modern football club”.

NORWICH CITY Sporting Director Stuart Webber has signed a three-year contract extension that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2022.

WATFORD have had 10 managers in seven years, entire changes of the backroom staff and the highest turnover of players - yet it is all part of their strategy and seems to work.

QPR Director of Football Les Ferdinand doubts whether he would have been given his job were it not for the fact the club has an ethnic minority board, as football has a “massive unconscious bias” against BAME executives.

CLUB LEGEND Leon Britton has been appointed as Swansea City’s first Sporting Director, making them the eighth side in the Championship to have this role or equivalent.